Étienne Morel de Chédeville (10 October 1751 in Paris - 13 July 1814 in Villeneuve-Saint-Georges) was an 18th-century French

playwright A playwright or dramatist is a person who writes play (theatre), plays, which are a form of drama that primarily consists of dialogue between Character (arts), characters and is intended for Theatre, theatrical performance rather than just Readin ...

and

librettist A libretto (From the Italian word , ) is the text used in, or intended for, an extended musical work such as an opera, operetta, masque, oratorio, cantata or musical. The term ''libretto'' is also sometimes used to refer to the text of major ...

. He wrote the librettos for the following operas: *1783 : '' La caravane du Caire'' by

André Grétry André Ernest Modeste Grétry (; baptised 11 February 1741; died 24 September 1813) was a composer from the Prince-Bishopric of Liège (present-day Belgium), who worked from 1767 onwards in France and took French nationality. He is most famous ...

*1783 : '' Alexandre aux Indes'' by

Nicolas-Jean Lefroid de Méreaux Nicolas-Jean Lefroid de MéreauxSpelled thus by , p.61 (1745–1797) was a French composer born in Paris. According to music critic François-Joseph Fétis, Méreaux studied music under French and Italian teachers before becoming the organist of ...

*1785 : ''

Thémistocle ''Thémistocle'' (''Themistocles'') is an opera by the French composer François-André Danican Philidor, first performed at Fontainebleau on 13 October 1785. It transferred to the Académie Royale de Musique, Paris (the Paris Opera) on 23 May 17 ...

'' by

François-André Danican Philidor François-André Danican Philidor (7 September 1726 – 31 August 1795), often referred to as André Danican Philidor during his lifetime, was a French composer and chess player. He contributed to the early development of the ''opéra comique''. ...

*1785 : ''Panurge dans l'île des lanternes'' by André Grétry *1786 : ''Tamerlan'' by

Johann Friedrich Reichardt Johann Friedrich Reichardt (25 November 1752 – 27 June 1814) was a German composer, writer and music critic. Early life Reichardt was born in Königsberg, East Prussia, to lutenist and ''Stadtmusiker'' Johann Reichardt (1720–1780). Johann F ...

*1789 : ''Aspasie'' by André Grétry

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Morel de Chédeville, Étienne (1751-1814)
on idref.fr
''La Caravane du Caire'', three-act opera presented in Fontainebleau
18th-century French dramatists and playwrights 19th-century French dramatists and playwrights French opera librettists 1751 births 1814 deaths Writers from Paris Directors of the Paris Opera {{France-playwright-stub